Big emergency

[throstur]

Icons On The Loose, Folders look like files - Big Emergency, weird sound

I'm really worried about this computer I just had built for me a month ago.

Suddenly it started making this wizzing sound and then about 30 minutes later my icons dissapeared! all the little icons on the taskbar became invisible and then the start menu had the whole left side (shortcuts) covered in 'unknown file type' icons. ALL folders now also have this 'unknown file type' icon as well!

This is taken of my F: portition, it shows 4 folders.

This is my start menu.

System Restore didn't seem to work for me, neither did rebooting it.

 

[throstur]

System Specs

XP Home SP2
MSI K9N Neo Motherboard
AMD 64 Dual
Dual Channel 2GB
PCI-E ASUS EN7300GT Silent (nVidia)
Soundcard?
320 Hard-Drive, split in 3 portions, SATA

 

[^Mike^]

sounds like something with the hard drive, it might be bad. Do you still have a warrenty on it?

 

[throstur]

I think so...

 

[^Mike^]

I think so...

well i would open the case and see if the sound is comming from the hard drive for sure.

 

[throstur]

its not making the sound anymore, it's just not working properly

 

[Raffaz]

What were you doing before this happened? Have ya installed anything etc? Do the links to the programs still work? Have ya ran spyware and antivirus?

 

[throstur]

Everything WORKS, it just looks like it's been eaten! maybe my shell32.dll is broken? anyone using windows XP SP 2 professional?

 

[Toby1]

Don't know if this'll work, but try using TuneUp Utilities 2007 It cleans and repairs and defrags the registry, cleans junk files, optimises memory usage, checks hard disks for errors, etc.

Or you could use any other system utility program of your choice. This is the only one I trust.

 

[^Mike^]

its not making the sound anymore, it's just not working properly

well you could always try reinstalling XP